Dazzling Northern Lights Anticipated Saturday Night
A solar flare that occurred around 2 a.m. Thursday morning may create a spectacular display of northern lights Saturday evening.
Excellent timing! Great weather expected overtop the great Coal Region of PA.. and Northern Lights will be a movin’ South!
Photographer Lalage Snow takes pictures of soldiers’ faces before, during and after the war in Afghanistan.
Amazing photostream. They can all be found here.
It’s been tough being a parent so far.. Ayden has turned two, and now the real battle begins: Potty training. Mom and Dad have been introducing it to the little man recently.. he’s been understanding of the concept from totally contempt of trying it. We were proud once when he wanted to sit on a toilet at a restaurant that he likes to eat pizza at. But it was a false alarm.. And at home?? No luck.. His grandfather thinks that my wife and I should buy him an old fashioned wooden potty with arms on it—made in America. Which, unfortunately, is just about impossible to find and buy.
But.. perhaps now there is a godlike solution for the poop and pee conundrum. Maybe my son Ayden needs a good old fashioned exorcism.
Seriously.
This website, http://www.demonbuster.com/potty.html, explains all the ways to ‘bust’ those demons up in your household. And potty training, it would seem, summons the most demons of all.. A reader of DemonBuster wrote into the site and said,
"Well my baby boy has been difficult to potty-train. He is past the age that he should be trained and I was getting really tired of it. I would sit him in the toilet for a long time and nothing would happen. When I would put him back in diapers, he would go! And I was sick and tired of it. So I got really mad, sat him in the potty and told him he had to "go". The baby started screaming and I got the idea that it was a demon. So I commanded it to manifest and give me his name. The baby continued screaming and saying: "You can’t make me, you can’t make me". I insisted in the demon telling me his name, so the Holy Spirit said: "That’s his name, "you can’t make me". I commanded it out. The baby had deliverance and he has been potty-trained since."
So tonight maybe it’s time to sit down my wife after Ayden goes to bed, and we write a script. Is this the weekend to command the evil spirits out? Is this the weekend where we tell the demons to leave our son poop in peace?
I love the internet. Before this, who’d ever though that it was demons preventing billions of kids in the past from learning how to properly go to the bathroom indoors?
Thanks demonbuster. Continue the ‘good’ work.
If you have 52 extra minutes, check this video out. Interesting stuff, regardless of your thoughts. Rand Paul went to Howard University to speak about race—and got some very tough questions from a young audience.. r
So evolution of the penis may have happened, too..
Women may have shaped men’s penises through natural selection..
I’d like to get the creationist view on this. Perhaps certain penises couldn’t fit on the ark.
Science is confirming something that has been around for a long, long time: The notion that we are star people. But does this mean we have been created by aliens? Some are realistically exploring that possibility.. and not just those who believe in the 10th planet..
And serious publications are asking it.. such as DISCOVERY.. They are running an article tonight “Is an Alien Message Embedded In Our Genetic Code?
I wish I had some better news.. but nothing earth breaking yet. Recently the owner of the Facebook fan site, People Who Miss Art Bell on C2C, asked Bell directly what is happening with any potential deal. He actually answered and said he cannot speak about anything on whether he’d come back ‘til a deal is done.’
What I worry about is his age..
And listening lately to George Noory it’s clearly evident as to why either Art Bell or someone else must take over the show—or it needs to be canceled. I cannot believe how bad Noory has gotten lately..
I used to talk somewhat on a regular basis with Art Bell through email and Facebook. But I am sure he gets more than thousands of messages a day..
Nonetheless, I’ll keep following up and hopefully Art Bell will give news soon.
And the new generation feels a lot older than their parents at the same age!
Really..
Dutch researchers are telling us something that maybe we all had a little hunch about for a while: Kids these days are obese, unhealthy, have high blood pressure, and are fixated on computer screens. While the best of the best bloggers on TV are thin and svelte, it appears that, if the Dutch study is correct and believable, then the majority of the youth these days are really about 15 years older healthwise..
More here..
Amazing stuff..
Serious question for any plant lovers out there: I have a shamrock plant, and tonight when a thunderstorm started, the shamrock plant drooped down and moved away from the window.. I know there is a certain luck of the Irish that comes with any shamrock plant but is there also an intelligence I was not aware of?
But today my nephew became took his oath and went to Paris Island to become a Marine. It’s been a weighty day, emotion wise.. and it portends to only get more intense as his training intensifies and world conflicts brew. So yes, North Korea Afghanistan, and all the other ‘Stans’ and strange arenas of global strife suddenly take center stage in my family’s life.
We are proud of this young man, Shawn “Mere” as he will now be known. We know he can do it.
And we also know he understands the oath he took today is one of the most sacred and noble things he has ever done…
He’s surely more brave than I ever was at the age of 18..
Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin were confronted by a topless protester..
Not sure about Angela, but Vlad the Impaler surely was amused.. I’m sure KGB style research is being conducted to get a phone number as I type..
It brings up some delicate and truly great questions.. How should businesses that deal with appealing to the sense of sight deal with glasses that see it all?
Billions?! Great.. It will feel like the end of the world here now too. Just great..
Internet firms are pretty angry that a California bill could make their companies tell users what happens with personal information.. And doesn’t that just tell you the whole story in itself?
And they’re from the 1970s!
Nixon and Kissinger documents here we come..
I recently re-watched it. I forgot just how bad it was.
It was bad.
And if you’re really into reading about just how bad the movie was, here is a GUARDIAN piece from 2011 reminding us all of that..
”” caption and photo by warrenellis http://bit.ly/Y6vrFA reblogged from instagram.
If I were them, I’d vote. Twice.
News from the ‘good war’ front. Warning: images of dead babies will be seen once you go to the link..
Libertarians and drug addicts will be reading the article sarcastically saying, ‘well ain’t that a shame’
Anyone who knows me or anyone who has followed this website for any time at all the know I am originally from Centralia PA, where a mine fire still burns..
Today I took a quick drive through the town as I often do when I have a spare minute and noticed something on the porch of my late grandmother’s home. She passed away before the turn of the 21st century, almost 15 years now, But her home has yet to be demolished because it is attached to someone else’s.
To my surprise, as I drove by, I saw two blue small cages and blankets all over the home outside of it.. I pulled up and took a closer look and saw what appears to be houses handcrafted for, maybe, I guess, cats?
I don’t quite know what to make of this. I am a little bit offended that someone would go onto this property to do this, however I cannot justifiably say anyone owns it at this time.. So what was the home of memories for two generations now becomes a scene from CATS before it’s eventual demolishing.. I do not like that at all..
Watching this one closely. 1918 here we come? Or a false alarm ..? We will see…
Not sure how to feel about this..
I actually loved the show .. But the difference between CNN then and now is that then they tackled weighty issues.. The new Crossfire will probably talk about Jay Z and Beyonce going to Cuba..
And besides, there will never be another episode with Bob Novak getting so angry that his teeth fly out.. God rest his soul.
I’d say if CNN ruins Crossfire, they may as well have just left it dead ..
I call it C because I’m not convinced it’s chicken.
Funny enough, about four years ago while eating product from KFC, I actually choked on a C bone. Maybe if I ever succumb to their product again I will go boneless..
We accused the North Koreans of amping things up, now we are worried we did the same thing
The Washington POST details how far North Korean missiles can actually reach here.
The conclusion:
Fortunately, neither is particularly scary for the United States.
Meanwhile the Pentagon has activated a missile shield… I wonder if they have the same map of missile strength that the POST does…
It was in response to my posts all day regarding North Korea.. Valid points are asserted, however. Read along:
Well the US has to treat the threats with some sort of seriousness. A threat is a threat, but it is really not one they should have children hearing about and scared of because as of right now nothing is going to come out of this.The fact that there are US military on the 38th parallel is no new thing, they have been there ready for attack since the seize fire with the Korean War. Actually, we are technically still in the Korean war since no peace treaty was signed, it’s just a seize fire. Plus I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if the North Korean troops started surrendering as soon as we would start an attack. Lots of North Koreans are scared to speak out against their country since it means an immediate sentence for them and their whole family to prison camps. In previous wars, like the Iraq war, the conditions in the country are full of so much suck that the soldier surrender immediately hoping that if they aren’t immediately killed, that they will be given asylum in America. It can be expected that much of the same would happen in Korea since even their Army is starving and the wealthiest in the capital still have to abide to food rations. It’s just a terrible situation for the North Koreans. They really have no chance, I just hope if and when something breaks out we do something for the innocent victims living in North Korea, it is so sad. Watch some of the Korean documentaries on Netflix if you have it like Camp 14.
Time Magazine in 1994 said that Kim Jong Il ‘may be more dangerous than Saddam.’
That certainly turned out to be true..
By the way, in 1994, Kim Jong Un was probably about 8 or 9 years old. And his dad was on TIME.
Thanks for ‘calming’ me down I suppose.
While I am not worried, it’s certainly interesting to think that back in 1991, children were being told in classrooms that there is no concern of Iraqi missiles hitting the United States mainland. Children were fearful of it then.. But in 2013, we don’t really talk about how North Korean missiles will not reach the United States. Should we not be telling our kids the same thing today that we did then?
While I am certainly a ‘form of an idiot’ I don’t know what form I take. And you may turn out to be 110% correct that North Korea cannot do anything right. While they cannot feed their population they can now launch some missiles and tests that surprised experts in 2012. (While their famines have not helped, the United States and UN embargoes on them certainly have aided in them not being able to eat)
And finally, this is not meant to be an aggressive response, I certainly appreciate your message. But I ask this.. if the United States should not be preparing for war, why does it somehow seem we are? Missiles to Guam? Chinese troops on the border .. American troops on the 38th parallel. All getting ready. For what?
Maybe for nothing. Maybe it’s all a game. A chess match.
But somehow a chess match has to end, right? Either with blink.. or brink.
I often feel silly worrying about the things I do. In this circumstance, I certainly hope I’ll feel silly about Lil Kim .. So far I only feel silly about Dennis Rodman being in North Korea.
But if someone like Peter King gets his way, we could be at war due to our own actions and not Pyongyang. That worries me, too.
The late night wars indeed.
And you thought Korea was getting tense..
So I looked at yearbooks from my past last night. Amazing how much changes, isn’t it? I read some of the words people wrote in my yearbook.. Pages aren’t yellowing yet but they sure feel older than ever..
From yearbooks to Facebook.
The old days to the modern age.
I’d love a chance to relive a few events.. but maybe not all.
http://www.schooners.com/multimedia/hillbarcam.htm is my favorite.
Unfortunately the Hawaiian Tropic Zone in NYC is closed. Which is a shame. Such fun was had there..
This is pretty shameful stuff, and here I thought only my local Easter egg hunt got vicious..
Obama! Come on! have some more sense.
Captain Trips SHOULD NOT exist..
…and I’m sure China will be completely honest with the world. Right?
Good evening everyone. Here’s the Toxic Airborne Event with HAPPINESS IS OVERRATED. Truly a shame this band broke up.
I say “best” in quotes because I truly hate this yearly tradition..
PETER THE ROMAN? FRANCIS VISITS THE TOMB
Seriously, why does this Pope have to keep reminding us he’s probably the last one!?
And if you still think Noory is the king of paranormal radio, you haven’t listened to Ground Zero
(Though I still wish Art Bell would come back)
So sorry to be such a downer on such a ‘funny’ day.. But that’s just what I do.
Good to see that media is all on the same page. If you watched your local diatribe of fires, plagues, crime, and pestilence, you’ve most certainly heard that ‘economic factors may take some spring out of the Easter Bunny’s step this year.’
It was so noticeable that Conan O’Brien put a montage together of local boobs on the tube telling us the same statement from their teleprompter.
While the video is hilarious for obvious reasons, it begs the bigger question: Who writes it.. and how it is dispensed to all the stations? And just once sentence, quite frankly, could be proof that we are hit with misinformation all at the same time.
Remember, while some may have abandoned the big network news and papers, we still turn to the locals for the information close to home. And if the big conglomerates could get to them, well… the mis and disinformation could survive.
By now you’ve seen or heard about the horrible event last night involving Louisville player Kevin Ware. (Video here, watch at your own risk)
It was so graphic that CBS even halted replays of the leg break.. It’s most obviously the water cooler talk this morning and will be rehashed over and over again throughout the day.
When it happened, however, something else struck me about the affair. Immediately Twitter lit up with people’s thoughts, and my Facebook friends’ collective chatter was all about Ware. I get it.. It was a sports injury live on TEE VEE, it was enough to make you queasy.. and we all celebrate March Madness like it’s a religious event. So it makes sense..
But what is absent from Twitter and my Facebook friends’ profiles? Any or all words about innocent children killed in drone attacks in Pakistan. Any and all stories about the civilians’ lives we left in shambles in Iraq after ten years of war (those who survived).. And and all knowledge of North Korean death camps.. Any and all information about, well, pretty much anything to do with the African continent.
I guess I reluctantly understand this. I come from the coal region, where football and sports is worshiped. Often, high school players get a VIP treatment.. And nationally, as the economic crumbling still happens and the moral decay is evident, we turn more and more to sports .. it’s a vacuum that sucks up the depression. We cheer on our high-paid professionals as though they know we are doing it.. we cry and wine about the other team that simply wears a different uniform color. We get angry and argue about college kids on a court.. and yes, when one falls by the wayside, we gather around the young hero and honor him with glory—of course while we voyeuristically gratify ourselves by watching the hero’s injury take place over and over again.
Not to take anything away form Kevin Ware, but it’s certainly amazing how little we know about a worldwide network of pedophiles.. How little we know about the amount of drone attacks in Pakistan.. how little we are aware of the Monsanto Protection Act..
But we know batting averages.
Football facts.
Boxing bouts…
And hell, even professional wrestling stars’ real names.
But did you know that, once again, America is getting ready to prop up another leader in the Middle East? This time in Syria? That’s not an April fools joke.
A few days ago I posted something on my Facebook page about the concerns I have with the Monsanto Protection Act, as signed into law by President Obama. My sister commented in a straight-shooting fashion:
Nobody cares about genetically modified corn until there is a crop failure like there was in South Africa in 2009. If fuel and veggie prices skyrocket…then they’ll care. Until then…this is tin foil hat stuff to most, Bryan.
And I bet no one knows much about that crop failure in 2009, now do we?
Hey, there was a earthquake in Haiti .. we had a telethon. Oh and a tsunami and meltdown in Japan.. we had a telethon. And Sandy .. we had a telethon.
All events of true importance somehow slip away like they never even existed in the first place. We are left in the end with sports…
Those football stars of the coal region often have something in common with heroes of Friday night lights from across America: Many don’t follow their dreams and make it big. Instead, they end up at the local watering hall, sometimes wearing old sports jerseys from their heyday, but always reliving the past and wishing it was still the present.
They now have Kevin Ware’s leg to speak about for a while..
In the mean time, other events that shape our lives will occur. But we’ll turn that off. It’s too inconvenient for us..
But the one tradition I have come to despise about today: Fake news stories that get plastered all over the web are get believed by people who forget it’s April Fools Day.
Seriously, reality is so mind-bending that I don’t want to be barraged by fiction.. Reality is much worse. However, today it will occur, because that is just how it goes..
I bet there will be some ridiculous headline and news story that makes the big time .. and it will prove fake. I almost don’t want to read a shred of information today for fear that it will be untrue.
I don’t find any of this funny, or amusing.. It’s rather annoying, to be perfectly frank.
But here we go.
Be a fool on April fools..
We keep sinking more and more as a human race.. FDNY EMS workers violating city rules and common decency by posting gory and macabre images online of people they are supposed to be helping..
I guess they..just can’t help themselves…..
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!